Tonight is the grand opening of C/O Berlin’s new open-air exhibition: “Ostkreuz: To the West” features the works of thirteen photographers from famous photo agency Ostkreuz. C/O Berlin invited the Ostkreuz photographers to take pictures of today’s Charlottenburg, the neighbourhood where C/O Berlin is now located. Continue reading
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Exhibition: “Meret Oppenheim – Retrospektive” at Gropius-Bau
Tomorrow the Meret Oppenheim retrospective will officially open in the Gropius-Bau art museum near Potsdamer Platz. The museum had the official pre-opening press conference today and the participants were able to view the exhibition in advance. For those who don’t know who Meret Oppenheim was (I didn’t initially): she is – or rather was – one of the most important female Surrealist artists of the 20th Century!
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Globe-M: “Tarantel 2”, photography at Künstlerhaus Bethanien – article
“Tarantel 2”, the new exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, brings together four international photographers – Elin Høyland from Norway, Vadim Gushchin and Lucia Ganieva from Russia and Thomas Sandberg from Germany. Four very different sujets but equally fascinating; highly recommended. The exhibition is running until 4th August 2013 and entry is free. Check out www.bethanien.de/en/exhibitions/tarantel-2. And here is the globe-M article: Der Biss der Spinne.
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Globe-M: “Bourgeoisie, Swing and Molotov Cocktails” exhibition at C/O Berlin – article
A new C/O Berlin exhibition which is starting tomorrow – Globe-M article: Amerika in Berlin. The background: C/O Berlin is one of the most high-profile photography exhibition galleries in Berlin. They’re a non-profit foundation and were established in 2000; for many photography fans they have an almost iconic status. For the last 13 years C/O Berlin was based in the old Postfuhramt on Oranienburger Straße in Mitte, a truly spectacular historical building. However, this March the gallery had to leave its Mitte location; they moved to Charlottenburg instead, into the Amerika Haus on Hardenbergstraße just behind Bahnhof Zoo train station. Continue reading
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Globe-M: “Idylle & Desaster”, Bogomir Ecker at Museum für Fotografie in Berlin – article
German sculptor Bogomir Ecker collects historical photographs from all over the world and from all decades – and the Museum of Photography here in Berlin is showing his latest photo installation “Idylle & Desaster” (exhibition website). Very worthwhile.
Here is the globe-M article: Idylle & Desaster.
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Globe-M: “Nostalgia”, early Russian colour photography at Gestalten gallery – article
Gestalten gallery (www.gestalten.com/space) in Berlin-Mitte is currently showing “Nostalgia”, a small exhibition of very early colour photographs by Russian photographer Michailowitch Prokudin-Gorski. In 1906 he travelled across Russia to systematically document the different regions, peoples and landscapes of Tsarist Russia; I love photography (especially early photography and travel photography) so I decided to make this my next globe-M article…..! Sophie-Gips-Höfe near Hacke’scher Markt. Free entry!
And here is the globe-M article about the exhibition: Farbenfrohes Zarenreich.
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Globe-M: “Geschlossene Gesellschaft”, photography exhibition in Berlinische Galerie – article
Next week is going to be hectic! On 4th October the new photography exhibition at Berlinische Galerie museum opens: “Geschlossene Gesellschaft” – social and artsy photography in the German Democratic Republic 1949 to 1989. The exhibition features some 250 pictures by 34 photographers. I know next to nothing about GDR photography so this should be interesting. The exhibition starts at 7pm, free entry on the first night, check it out: Berlinische Galerie.
And here is the globe-M article: Geschlossene Gesellschaft.
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Globe-M: “Der Alchimist”, Heinz Hajek-Halke in Akademie der Künste – article
Friday 7th September: Vernissage of the new Akademie der Künste exhibition, “Der Alchimist. Heinz Hajek-Halke“: Check out my globe-M article here: Ein Meister der Alchemie.
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